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Giveaway: Get A Unity 3D Or iOS Book (There Will Be 6 Winners) – Enter Here!

UPDATE: This contest is now closed, and winners being drawn.  Thanks to all!

After the great success of our recent giveaway with the App design vault I have teamed up with Packt Publishing and wear organizing a giveaway where six lucky winners can pick up a copy of their choice between four great selling books on developing with Unity and iPhone.

Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winner.

The first book is Unity 3.X game Development Essentials:

  • Kick start your game development, and build ready-to-play 3D games with ease.
  • Understand key concepts in game design including scripting, physics, instantiation, particle effects, and more.
Read more about this book and download view a  Sample Chapter here.

The second book is Unity iOS Essentials:

  • Learn key strategies and follow practical guidelines for creating Unity 3D games for iOS devices.
  • Learn how to plan your game levels to optimize performance on iOS devices using advanced game concepts.
  • Full of tips, scripts, shaders, and complete Unity 3D projects to guide you through game creation on iOS from start to finish.

Read more about this book and download free Sample Chapter here.

The third book is iPhone applications tune-up:

  • Tune up every aspect of your iOS application for greater levels of stability and performance.
  • Improve the users’ experience by boosting the performance of your app.
Read more about this book and download free Sample Chapter here.
The final book is The iPhone User Interface Cookbook:
  • Learn how to build an intuitive interface for your future iOS application
  • Avoid app rejection with detailed insight into how to best abide by Apple’s interface guidelines
Read more about this book and download free Sample Chapter here.

Here are the rules to enter:

1) Tweet this article – you can use the tweet button at the top or at the bottom of the article.
2) Visit the books above, check out what’s inside and see what you would like to learn most from the books – pick one that you like the best.
3) Enter a comment below (or below this article on ManiacDev.com if you are reading this elsewhere…) with your twitter name and what you’re looking forward to learn most in the above articles.

Example Comment:

Twitter Name: @maniacdev. I would like Unity 3.x development essentials am really looking forward to learning how to use the particle engine in Unity 3D.

4) Be sure that you are following @maniacdev on Twitter when the contest ends at 12 Noon Pacific Standard Time January 18th so you can receive your prize by direct message – or it will go to the next person.

Only one entry per person.  Random.org will be used to pick the six winners.

You will be able to choose whether you would like an eBook or physical book.

Good luck on being one of the six winners!

Update: After entering our contest be sure to check out a contest that Hsiao Wei Chen is having for a copy of the Cocos2D 1 Game Development Cookbook also from Packt over on her blog here.

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  • http://twitter.com/purplelilgirl Hsiao Wei Chen

    twitter name: @purplelilgirl:twitter  I would like
    Unity iOS Essentials book because I would like to learn how to optimize performance on iOS devices :)

  • http://twitter.com/frytaz1 frytaz1

    Twitter Name: @frytaz1:twitter . I would like Unity 3.x development essentials am really looking forward to learning how to use the particle engine in Unity 3D. :)

  • http://twitter.com/SevenyMedia Seveny Media

    Twitter Name: @SevenyMedia. I would like
    iPhone Applications Tune-Up book am really looking forward to learning how to unit-testing in Xcode.

  • Ignazio calo’

    Twitter Name: @ignazio_c. I would like Unity 3.x development essentials because i’m very noob in 3d game programming. 

  • Federico Fassina

    Twitter Name: @ffede81:twitter . I would like Unity 3.x development essentials as I really need to learn this f***g Unity3D once and for all!

  • http://twitter.com/aNTwNHs Antonis Lilis

    Twitter Name: @aNTwNHs. I would like iPhone User Interface Cookbook because I need to learn more on iOS UI design

  • http://twitter.com/RyanCather Ryan Cather

    Twitter Name: @ryancather. I would like the iOS applications tune up as I’m writing my first major app to sell and I want it to be as efficient as possible!

  • http://twitter.com/klauslanza kappa

    Twitter name: @klauslanza . I want to lear how to build an intuitive interface for my next ios project using “The iPhone User Interface Cookbook”.

  • http://twitter.com/nicoifyouwant Nico

    Twitter Name: @nicoifyouwant:twitter . I would like iPhone User Interface Cookbook because I wanna improve the user interface of my app!

  • Rui Peres

    Twitter Name: @XSody:twitter . I would like “The iPhone User Interface Cookbook” so I could give my app a great look and a really good user experience.

  • http://twitter.com/kirkoff83 Nel

    Twitter name: @kirkoff83:twitter I would like iPhone applications tune-up
    to understand where and how to improve the performance of my apps.

  • http://twitter.com/bddq Benoit Deldicque

    I would like The iPhone User Interface Cookbook to make @rengoapp:twitter better and get many design prices for the UI !!!

  • http://twitter.com/travelan Bas du Pré

    Hi! My twitter account is @travelan. I would really like to learn how to further optimize my iOS applications, so I’d go with ‘iPhone applications tune-up’. Fingers crossed!

  • Anonymous

    Twitter Name: @rundeks. I would like Unity 3.x development essentials and am really looking forward to learning how to combine scripting and animation to bring objects to life. I can get objects into the world okay, but have always struggled when it comes to animating them.

  • http://twitter.com/Carbamide Josh Barrow

    Twitter Name: @carbamide. I really think that the iPhone Applications Tune-Up would be the best book for me.  Even the best developers, and I’m by no means the best, could use a little tune-up.

  • http://buttonsandlights.com/ TJ

    Twitter Name: griotspeak. I would would like iPhone Applications Tune-Up because my app needs to run more butter like. hot silky delicious butter.

  • omar verduga

    Twitter Name: @ omar13x I would like The iPhone User Interface Cookbook because I  have been mainly a backend developer, so I feel that sometimes I lack skills about good GUI’s 

  • Anonymous

    Twitter Name: @mikevpark I would like to gain an understanding of the Unity 3D Engine and game development.

  • http://twitter.com/jandujar2 Jose Antonio Andujar

    Twitter Name: @jandujar2:twitter I would like to gain Unity Essentials Book in order to begin cross-platform development, focusing my efforts on iOs games.

  • http://www.facebook.com/iSteveTalk Steve C.J. Rokette

    @iSteveTalk. I would like  Unity 3.X game Development Essentials, primarly for iOs but not loosing focus on other platform.

  • http://twitter.com/booleanBoy Rob Stringer

    Twitter Name: @booleanBoy I would love Unity iOS Essentials as I have the other Unity book already and I know this will be a good one too

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GCJRD3O6ZWLGIE6QVLG46Z5TDU BrianC

    Twitter Name: @briangibson:twitter . I would like Unity iOS Essentials as I am would like to become more efficient developing for mobile.

  • http://twitter.com/titojerez Alberto Jerez ?

    Twitter Name: @titojerez. iPhone applications tune-up as I am would like to design faster apps.

  • http://twitter.com/TheFrankman Frank Clark

    @TheFrankman I already own Unity3.x and was taught by the author at Bournemouth University. However, having read that and worked with Unity I’d like to know more about iOS development. So i would like Unity iOS essentials. Can’t afford it myself!

  • Juan Manuel Palacios

    Twitter Name: @jmp_imaginarium. I would like Unity 3.x Development Essentials. I’m really interested in learning more about lightmaping & other lighting & shadowing techniques to give my projects a more professional feel to them on the visual front.

  • Anonymous

    Twitter name @rickyah

    iPhone applications tune-up seems to be a nice book to learn about the internals of iOS,

  • Anonymous

    Twitter Name: @cgarman_dev.  I would like iPhone applications tune-up.  Getting more performance out of applications is a great way to improve apps.

  • http://www.facebook.com/thomas.einwaller Thomas Einwaller

    Hi, I would like to win iPhone applications tune-up, our applications could use some speed improvements

  • http://twitter.com/jayv Jay V

    Hi! @jayv would like the iPhone UI Cookbook, as an actual, physical book. Coz, you know, he hasn’t gotten used to eBooks yet.

  • http://twitter.com/pkuchta Piotr Kuchta

    Twitter name: @pkuchta:twitter I’d like to win ‘Unity 3.X game Development Essentials:’ cause I’m quite interested in learning a bit of Unity 3D

  • http://twitter.com/CParacaidista CarlosParacaidista

    Twitter name: @CParacaidista I would like the The iPhone User Interface Cookbook: because i LOVE ios
    development and i think i need this kind of book to improve!!

  • http://twitter.com/followted ted chan

    Twitter Name: @followted  I would like the third book “iPhone applications tune-up”, I hope to learn things about tuning up my code and to make things more smooth and neat.

  • http://twitter.com/ahsanshafiqch Ahsan Shafiq Ch

    Twitter Name: @ahsanshafiqch I’d like to read up “Unity 3.X game Development Essentials” because it says there are no pre-requisites and its learning from scratch. I am a game developer but I haven’t yet got a chance to start up on unity. This would definitely save my time and will certainly soothes the learning curve. 

  • http://twitter.com/deenna_vargilz Deen Na

    Twitter Name: @deenna_vargilz. I would like the last book “The iPhone User Interface Cookbook” because learning iOS interface really makes me excited.

  • http://twitter.com/sergimtzlosa sergimtz.losa

    Twitter Name: @sergimtzlosa. I would likeUnity iOS Essentials because I always wanted to learn Unity

  • http://twitter.com/nilart Guillermo Zafra

    Twitter Name: @nilart I’d like Unity 3.x Game Development :D

  • http://twitter.com/full84 fullone

    Twitter Name @full84:twitter I would like Unity iOS Essentials

  • http://twitter.com/gandolf_wizard Anselm Scholz

    Twitter Name: @gandolf_wizard:twitter I would like iPhone applications tune-up. I would really like to learn more about Improved of network and communications performance. ;-)

  • http://twitter.com/samjarman Sam Jarman

    Twitter Name: @samjarman:twitter . I would like  iPhone applications tune-up becuase I’m a student who is interested in making my games faster, without the years of computer science study, that I’m just not old enough to do yet. :)

  • http://twitter.com/evolution219 B?l?ji

    Twitter name: @evolution219:twitter . I’d like the iPhone User Interface Cookbook. UI is king, you know!

  • http://twitter.com/GawinVideo Hannes

    @gawinvideo:twitter . I’d like the User Interface Cookbook, because i can use my brain to develop things – but I would also like to extend my horizon with UI related things :)

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